Comparison & Contrast Essay Assignment

ENG 111 Comparison & Contrast Essay Assignment

Please write up a MLA format essay. I already have an outline for this essay as well, so you can just already have the information to put into the essay. Use the outline to write a 4-paragraph, MLA-formatted essay of about 450-600 words. (Academic paragraphs need to be 7-12 well-developed sentences in length.). Start the essay with an introduction that introduces the newspaper articles. At the end of the introduction include a thesis sentence that introduces the points being compared/contrasted. I already have the info to do this as well. Thank you if you will do this for me!

Comparison and Contrast Essay Outline (PBP Method)

1. Introduction

• A false alarm missile alert that rattled the hearts of every Hawaiian resident.
• Article 1: “Hawaii Says Fix in Place After Alarming Error”, by Amy B. Wang from the Chicago Tribune, on 15 Jan. 2018
• Article 2: “Missile Alert Sparks Terror; For Nearly 40 Minutes, Vulnerable Hawaii Thought the End Was Near”, by Sonali Kohli, Michael A. W. Ottey, and Heidi Chang from Los Angeles Times, on 14 Jan. 2018
• Thesis: When comparing the two articles regarding the false missile alert, the contrasting writing styles for the focus point and bias of the articles are easily recognizable.

• Body paragraph 1

• Topic Sentence: Since these two articles discuss the same event, the readers are misled into thinking the focus points are the same.
• Article 1:
  • Support A: The author provides a short summary of the duty responsibility of the HEMA employee. Among his duties that day was to initiate an internal test of the emergency missile warning system. Which was basically to aware the general public of the missile while not truly awaring the public.
  • Support B: The author later elaborates that the worker created the error of choosing the wrong button on the computer leading to awaring the public an actual missile alert has commenced.
  • Support C: The author focused on the government’s point of view of the false missile alert. “Part of what worsened the situation Saturday was that there was no system in place at the state emergency agency for correcting the error, HEMA’s Rapoza said. The state agency had standing permission through FEMA to use civil warning systems to send out the missile alert — but not to send out a subsequent false alarm alert, he said.”(Wang 2)
  • Support D: “Though the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency posted a follow-up tweet at 8:20 a.m. saying there was “NO missile threat,” it wouldn’t be until 8:45 a.m. that a subsequent cellphone alert was sent telling people to stand down. “We had to double back and work with FEMA (to craft the false alarm alert) and that’s what took time,” Rapoza said.” (Wang 2)
• Article 2:
  • Support A: The authors briefly explain that HEMA announced the warning happened once the unnamed employee hit the incorrect button when completing the internal test.
  • Support B: The authors go into how the residents felt during this traumatic moment. “Today is a day most of us will never forget,” Ige said in a statement. “A terrifying day when our worst nightmares appeared to become a reality. A day where we frantically grabbed what we could, tried to figure out how and where to shelter and protect ourselves … said our ‘I love yous,’ and prayed for peace”(Kohli et al. 1)
  • Support C: “Until the all-clear was given, people desperately tried to get information and swamped the 911 system.”(Kohli et al. 1)
  • Support D: “The bad thing is we tried to call 911 and we were really frustrated that nobody picked up the phone,” said Pamela Spitze, a retired community college training program staffer. “It took about 40 minutes before we were told it was a mistake.”(Kohli et al. 1)